What the board finds, written up. Shortlists with what bugs us about each tool, guides on running a launch, and one tool next to another when that is the real question. Every tool named here came off the board.
Start at a shelf
Design tools
What designers open every day, and the shots they export.
3 posts
Icons and fonts
Icon sets and typefaces, with the licence read before the download.
2 posts
Dev tools
What ships the thing: components, starters, editors, CLIs.
4 posts
AI tools
AI products a maker can actually put into a workflow.
1 post
Inspiration
Galleries and references, sorted by what you are looking for.
2 posts
Figma, Framer and Webflow
Templates and kits for the platform you already build on.
1 post
Mac apps
Apps that earn a spot in the dock.
1 post
Maker stack
The running of the business around the product.
1 post
Launching
How a launch is run, and how this board runs one.
3 posts
Guide3 min read
Saving inspiration is easy and finding it later is the whole problem. How to file references so they come back when you need them, and three Mac apps that keep the file on your own disk.
Roundup3 min read
The menu bar is the most expensive real estate on a Mac. Eight small apps off the board that are worth a slot, what each one costs, and which macOS it needs.
Compare2 min read
Five ways to ship a launch page with zero repo. Which one is free, which one gives you the code, which one adds a store, and which one an AI builds.
Roundup2 min read
Six galleries of App Store screenshot design and the two tools that make the twelve sizes. What the top apps do on the first frame.
Roundup2 min read
Moving gradients, fluid, grain and full shader components for React, Vue, Svelte and Solid. Eight sources on the board and what each one costs the bundle.
Guide2 min read
Grid, weights, coverage, licence and the switching cost. The five checks before an icon set goes into a design system, with the sets that pass them.
Roundup2 min read
Backgrounds, browser frames, annotations and App Store sizes. Six tools that turn a raw screenshot into the picture a changelog or a post deserves.
Compare2 min read
Five desks for running Claude Code, Codex and friends. Which one runs agents in parallel, which one plugs in hosting, which one is open source.
Guide2 min read
A thirty second recording does more for a launch than three screenshots. The four steps, the tools for each, and what to skip.
Roundup2 min read
The parts an AI product needs that a normal kit lacks: streaming chat, thinking indicators, approval steps, animated numbers. Eight sources on the board.
Roundup2 min read
Ten registries and kits that extend shadcn/ui with animation, charts, themes and terminal components. Which ones ship, which ones are a demo.
Compare2 min read
Three renderers, three different jobs. Rotato for a Mac desk, Protato for a phone in your pocket, Hano for a browser tab. What each exports and what it costs.
Guide3 min read
The eight things a launch page has to carry, in the order a visitor meets them. Everything else is what you do after the first hundred visitors.
Compare2 min read
Two tools, one job, and a decision that comes down to whether you need a file or a live URL by Friday. No scores, no winner declared.
Roundup2 min read
Most AI tools get opened once. These eight are the ones members came back to, sorted by the job they actually finish.
Roundup1 min read
Eight tools off the board for the person who is designer, developer and marketer this week. Picked by what they output, not by what they look like.
Guide3 min read
MIT, CC BY, SIL and the ones with a catch. How to read an icon licence in two minutes, and what happens when you get it wrong.
Guide3 min read
A first launch with no audience is a room problem, not a reach problem. What to do in the four weeks before the day, and on it.